Weathering

Near Las Cruces, NM

Welcome to this seyahatname, this book of travels: rambling reflections of a man passionate about fitting his life into the greater Life. That odd word in the title is the closest i can get to the original Algonquian name for an animal New England gardeners love to hate. A note of introduction...

Antalya Fishermen

mending nets and pouring çay

A note on pronunciation

Where Turkish occurs in the blog, the letters are pronounced much the same as English ones - though unlike English in which g can be gelatinous, grand, or silent as the night, Turkish letters have but a single sound. The letters which differ are pronounced as follows:

c is a ginger-flavored jç should make you "choke"ğ is silent as the night light sight,

lengthening the vowel before itı sounds like the u in "cranium"ö is the new "ew"ş shimmies and shakes wordsü is unique, the cutest of all